People With This Blood Type Is More Vulnerable To COVID-19, Study Shows

According to a new study conducted on Chinese patients who have COVID-19, those with blood type A might be more prone to contract the Coronavirus while people with type O is more resistant.

The experts behind this study analyzed the blood sample of 2,000 patients of COVID-19 in Wuhan and Shenzhen. They also compared them to those of healthy citizens of the two cities.

What their study suggests is that people with blood type A tend to be more vulnerable to the virus and they also show more severe symptoms.

At this point, it is still too soon to be 100% sure of the above conclusion but the researchers have urged health officials and the government to take blood type into consideration when treating and isolating COVID-19.

According to Wang Xinghuan, the lead researcher of this study, people with type A need special personal protection since they are proven to be more vulnerable.

On the contrary, people with blood type O has a lower risk of contracting the Coronavirus. Wuhan has seen 206 patients succumbed to COVID-19 with 85 of them have type A and 52 have type O. So the former blood type has 63% more d.e.a.t.h.s than the latter group. This pattern is true across gender and age groups.

This study has the participation of doctors and scientists from cities across China including Wuhan, Shenzhen, and Beijing. However, the scientists warn that there might be risk using the result of the research as a guidance to ward off COVID-10.

Some researchers believe that environmental conditions like temperature, altitude, and humidity might play a part in the virus favoring certain blood types.

This same pattern has been observed in other diseases including SARS, hepatitis B, and Norwalk virus.

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